Patents by Inventor Yasuhiro Awatsuji

Yasuhiro Awatsuji has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 10108145
    Abstract: A digital holography device of an embodiment of the present invention includes: an image sensing device which records, in an image sensor and on the basis of an object, a plurality of holograms that correspond to respective different photographic exposure values; and a computer which (i) generates a high dynamic range hologram, which includes pieces of information ranging from low luminance information to high luminance information, by synthesizing the plurality of holograms recorded and (ii) generates a reconstructed image of the object by performing arithmetic processing of phase-shift interferometry, diffraction calculation, and/or the like on the basis of the high dynamic range hologram.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2018
    Assignee: NATIONAL UNIVERSITY CORPORATION KYOTO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Yasuhiro Awatsuji, Ryosuke Yonesaka, Tatsuki Tahara
  • Patent number: 10001405
    Abstract: A complex amplitude information measurement apparatus (10) according to the present invention includes pixel sensor groups for generating a difference from one pixel sensor group to another in the optical distance of object light traveling from a measurement object (100); a camera (15) provided with an image sensor for recording, with a single-shot exposure, the object light that has passed through or been reflected from the pixel sensor groups to obtain intensity information of the measurement object; and a computer (16) for computing, on the basis of the intensity information, phase information of the measurement object (100).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 19, 2018
    Assignee: National University Corporation Kyoto Institute of Technology
    Inventors: Yasuhiro Awatsuji, Peng Xia
  • Publication number: 20160061656
    Abstract: A complex amplitude information measurement apparatus (10) according to the present invention includes pixel sensor groups for generating a difference from one pixel sensor group to another in the optical distance of object light traveling from a measurement object (100); a camera (15) provided with an image sensor for recording, with a single-shot exposure, the object light that has passed through or been reflected from the pixel sensor groups to obtain intensity information of the measurement object; and a computer (16) for computing, on the basis of the intensity information, phase information of the measurement object (100).
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 20, 2014
    Publication date: March 3, 2016
    Inventors: Yasuhiro AWATSUJI, Peng XIA
  • Patent number: 9201397
    Abstract: A digital holography device (1) which is capable of measuring a subject with high accuracy by correcting intensity unevenness by accurately removing zeroth-order diffracted light, includes: a hologram generating section (26) for generating a first hologram and a second hologram each obtained by extracting components identical in phase shift amount from a polarizer array hologram which is recorded in an image capturing device (7) mounted with a polarizer array (6); a dividing section (3) for dividing the first hologram into a plurality of first regions, and dividing the second hologram into a plurality of second regions; a comparing section (4) for comparing a first average value of an intensity in a first region of the first hologram and a second average value of an intensity in a second region of the second hologram which region corresponds to the first region; and a correcting section (5) for, in a case where the first average value and the second average value differ, correcting at least one of the first a
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2015
    Assignee: National University Corporation Kyoto Institute of Technology
    Inventors: Yasuhiro Awatsuji, Peng Xia, Tatsuki Tahara
  • Publication number: 20150205260
    Abstract: A digital holography device of an embodiment of the present invention includes: an image sensing device which records, in an image sensor and on the basis of an object, a plurality of holograms that correspond to respective different photographic exposure values; and a computer which (i) generates a high dynamic range hologram, which includes pieces of information ranging from low luminance information to high luminance information, by synthesizing the plurality of holograms recorded and (ii) generates a reconstructed image of the object by performing arithmetic processing of phase-shift interferometry, diffraction calculation, and/or the like on the basis of the high dynamic range hologram.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 28, 2013
    Publication date: July 23, 2015
    Applicant: National University Corporation Kyoto Institute of Technology
    Inventors: Yasuhiro Awatsuji, Ryosuke Yonesaka, Tatsuki Tahara
  • Patent number: 8786755
    Abstract: A polarization imaging apparatus includes a laser light source and an image pickup element. Object light and reference light each include a first polarized-light component polarized in a first direction and a second polarized-light component polarized in a second direction that is different from the first direction. The image pickup element simultaneously captures an image of an interference pattern including (i) a first interference figure, (ii) a second interference figure, (iii) a third interference figure, and (iv) a fourth interference figure. The polarization imaging apparatus includes a reconstructing section generating respective reconstructed images of the object in regard to the first and second polarized-light components, from the first to fourth interference figures, and a polarized-light-image-calculating section obtaining polarized-light images from the reconstructed images.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2014
    Assignee: National University Corporation Kyoto Institute of Technology
    Inventors: Yasuhiro Awatsuji, Tatsuki Tahara
  • Patent number: 8665504
    Abstract: A digital holography device includes a light source that emits light, the light source being provided for supply of object light beams formed by radiation, transmission, scattering, reflection, or diffraction of the emitted light from a subject, an array device that splits the light emitted from the light source into two kinds of reference light beams having different phases in a plane perpendicular to a direction in which the light emitted from the light source travels, a CCD camera having an image-capturing plane on which two kinds of interference fringe patterns are recorded, the interference fringe patterns being formed by interferences between the two kinds of reference light beams, and the object light beams, and an image reconstruction device that generates a reconstructed image of the subject from the two kinds of interference fringe patterns recorded on the image-capturing plane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2014
    Assignee: National University Corporation Kyoto Institute of Technology
    Inventors: Yasuhiro Awatsuji, Atsushi Kaneko, Takamasa Koyama, Tatsuki Tahara, Takeshi Wakamatsu
  • Patent number: 8654343
    Abstract: An embodiment of the present invention realizes an interference measurement apparatus which can obtain an interference image to be used for obtaining three-dimensional information of a subject which dynamically changes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2014
    Assignee: National University Corporation Kyoto Institute of Technology
    Inventors: Yasuhiro Awatsuji, Tatsuki Tahara
  • Publication number: 20130301093
    Abstract: A digital holography device (1) which is capable of measuring a subject with high accuracy by correcting intensity unevenness by accurately removing zeroth-order diffracted light, includes: a hologram generating section (26) for generating a first hologram and a second hologram each obtained by extracting components identical in phase shift amount from a polarizer array hologram which is recorded in an image capturing device (7) mounted with a polarizer array (6); a dividing section (3) for dividing the first hologram into a plurality of first regions, and dividing the second hologram into a plurality of second regions; a comparing section (4) for comparing a first average value of an intensity in a first region of the first hologram and a second average value of an intensity in a second region of the second hologram which region corresponds to the first region; and a correcting section (5) for, in a case where the first average value and the second average value differ, correcting at least one of the first a
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 14, 2012
    Publication date: November 14, 2013
    Applicant: National University Corporation Kyoto Institute of Technology
    Inventors: Yasuhiro Awatsuji, Peng Xia, Tatsuki Tahara
  • Publication number: 20130100333
    Abstract: A polarization imaging apparatus includes a laser light source and an image pickup element. Object light and reference light each include a first polarized-light component polarized in a first direction and a second polarized-light component polarized in a second direction that is different from the first direction. The image pickup element simultaneously captures an image of an interference pattern including (i) a first interference figure, (ii) a second interference figure, (iii) a third interference figure, and (iv) a fourth interference figure. The polarization imaging apparatus includes a reconstructing section generating respective reconstructed images of the object in regard to the first and second polarized-light components, from the first to fourth interference figures, and a polarized-light-image-calculating section obtaining polarized-light images from the reconstructed images.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 22, 2011
    Publication date: April 25, 2013
    Applicant: National University Corporation Kyoto Institute of Technology
    Inventors: Yasuhiro Awatsuji, Tatsuki Tahara
  • Publication number: 20110292402
    Abstract: An embodiment of the present invention realizes an interference measurement apparatus which can obtain an interference image to be used for obtaining three-dimensional information of a subject which dynamically changes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 13, 2010
    Publication date: December 1, 2011
    Applicant: National University Corporation Kyoto Institute of Technology
    Inventors: Yasuhiro Awatsuji, Tatsuki Tahara
  • Publication number: 20100253986
    Abstract: Provided is a digital holography device having a simple configuration and an improved image quality, including: a light source that emits light, the light source being provided for supply of object light beams formed by radiation, transmission, scattering, reflection, or diffraction of the emitted light from a subject; an array device that splits the light emitted from the light source into two kinds of reference light beams having different phases in a plane perpendicular to a direction in which the light emitted from the light source travels; a CCD camera having an image-capturing plane on which two kinds of interference fringe patterns are recorded, the interference fringe patterns being formed by interferences between the two kinds of reference light beams, which have been produced by the array device, and the object light beams, which have been formed by radiation, transmission, scattering, reflection, or diffraction from the subject; and an image reconstruction device that generates a reconstructed imag
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 21, 2008
    Publication date: October 7, 2010
    Inventors: Yasuhiro Awatsuji, Atsushi Kaneko, Takamasa Koyama, Tatsuki Tahara, Takeshi Wakamatsu